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Not to flog a dead horse, I received an email from Joan Gerard today, which included the line "Bobby is, of course, quite correct, as to what happened when the A of S was flipped up and sent to the other table." So enough on that. I have other thoughts on the issues of evidence,and prior record, which can be found here.

I came late to the lengthy discussion of the 6D incident in New Orleans, but was concerned to see that the facts of one incident from Mr. Piltch's past were being disputed there. As publisher of 'The Lone Wolff', I drew this to the attention of Bobby Wolff, and he sent me the email that appears below, posted here at his specific request. -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Ray, Took your advice, and sure enough I got through the morass and saw more than I wanted to. It seemed that Howard Piltch was the 6 diamond bidder on the subject hand. Also, whoever it was, and I couldn't determine who, was wrong in almost all or perhaps on every issue when he related the previous Howard Piltch issue of exposing the Ace of Spades. He stated that Richard Colker was the recorder and he wasn't, Bob Rosen was and was fired by the then President of the ACBL, Cecil Cook. This person said a person by the name of Brown was President of the ACBL. He said the year was 1996 and I do not remember which year it was, but it was the year Cecil Cook was President. He stated that Piltch never was tried by the Ethical Oversight Committee and I was a member of that committee with Edgar Kaplan presiding when we found Howard guilty. I took our verdict to the BOG at the next Nationals where Howard, who was at the time running for President and winning was at the podium denying that the EOC ever took jurisdiction or heard the case. I went to the microphone and read the verdict which was met by complete silence as many of the BOD's were at that meeting. You have my permission, as a matter of fact, desire for you to somehow get this letter on that site for those people to at least read it and then go from there. It seems that Howard's opponents in that Spingold match were the Lalls, Hemant and Justin and they want to right the wrong. I am including Joan Gerard in this correspondence who is now on the ACBL BOD's and was then when the Ace of Spades incident occurred and also she was, no doubt, at the BOG meeting which was related by me above. Bobby